later.
Margaret called immediately.
Susan let the call go to voicemail.
Margaret began angrily.
“After everything I’ve done for this family, you send legal papers instead of talking to me like a human being?”
Then came tears.
“I can’t believe you would humiliate Richard like this.”
Finally came the sentence Susan had expected.
“A good wife doesn’t separate a man from his mother.”
Susan didn’t answer.
Richard asked to meet instead.
They chose a quiet café.
“Mom thinks you’re punishing her,” he said.
“I’m ending a temporary living arrangement that
